13 Ergebnisse für: rivaled
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Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot - Einar Haugen, Einar Ingvald Haugen, Camilla Cai, Wilhelm Muller - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0V_YprwSWLUC&pg=PA162#v=onepage
Norway's Ole Bull led one of the most remarkable and celebrated lives of the nineteenth century. Colorful and charismatic, he was a composer and virtuoso violinist who won acclaim from Moscow to Cairo and from Canada to Cuba, associated with the cultural…
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Homosexuality and Civilization - Louis Crompton - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=TfBYd9xVaXcC&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=Louis+Crompton+Jacopo+Saltarelli&source=bl&ots=OrnLPsjwgJ&si
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of…
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Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue - Paul Jankowski - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=r7Byd-NqkFQC&pg=PA139
"A swindler charmed and spent his way to the heights of the [French] Republic, before coming to a mysterious end on the side of Mont-Blanc." With these words, Paul F. Jankowski introduces his subject, Russian-born Sacha Stavisky, who in 1934 set off a…